• Title
  Xarifa [yacht] - Property of C. Parbury Esqre / watercolour by Frederick Garling
• Creator
  Frederick Garling, 1806-1873
• Call number
  SV/47
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1863
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  132904
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour with pencil underdrawing - 24 x 27.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Charles Parbury was a son of Frederick Parbury, a partner in the 19th century Sydney mercantile firm Parbury, Lamb & Co. Charles Parbury was a vice-commodore of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.
  In 1864 Charles Parbury's Xarifa beat William Walker's Chance in a southerly gale over 140nm from Sydney to Newcastle and back.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Another version of this watercolour, also by Frederick Garling, is held in the Mitchell Library, Location Number: ML 87
  Digital order no:a128223
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title inscribed by the artist in pencil beneath image
• Name
  Xarifa (yacht)
  
• Topic
  yachts
  
• Place
  Sydney Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
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